Quotes from Bertolt Brecht

The fate of man is man.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

I don't trust him. We're friends.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

Life is short and so is money

Grub first, then ethics.